Critical Analysis of Marital Rape in India

Abstract

India is one of 36 countries worldwide that also exclude husbands from rape against their spouses and grants them moral protection. Sometimes, women have attempted to fight this in a case that may not prevail nor offers support for the perpetrator. Marital rape is an important issue. The current paper focuses on how in the constitution of contemporary India, the concept of marital abuse is thought unlikely. The paper further analyses the need for marital violation law as an entity in the legal system of marriage, rather than only in the sense of a penal overhaul. It further concludes that it is important to specifically enforce marital rape laws for adult women and not just single women to curb continuing conflicts in India.